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Friday... We have this hope of expectancy.


Psalm 5:3 (NLT), "Listen to my voice in the morning Lord. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly."

Friday... We have this hope of expectancy.

Now David found a great way to start his day. He says in Psalm 5:1-3 (NLT), "O LORD, hear me as I pray." And that is a great place to start. It really is.

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He goes on, "Listen to my cry for help, my King, my God, for I pray to no one but you." And that is so important. We don't try to pump ourselves up by ourself. No, we pray to no one but you, God, my LORD, my King. Now this relationship with God is so, so very important.

And then David says, "Listen to my voice in the morning, LORD. Each morning I bring my requests to you" And that is so great. And then he says, "and wait expectantly." Yes, we have this hope of expectancy. We are experienced. That is what a relationship with God and a moment by moment connection does. It makes a difference in our daily walk with him but also with our confidence for tomorrow.

I was also reading this morning in 2 Corinthians 5. Paul writes in verse 1, "For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands."

In verses 4-5 he says, "While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it's not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed by life. God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us the Holy Spirit." Yes, we have this hope of expectancy. "Listen to my voice in the morning, LORD. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly."

Now in this relationship with the LORD, we have this life in these earthly bodies and the potential of these new bodies.

Paul then says in verses 6-7, "So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord. For we live by believing and not by seeing." Believing is another word for expectancy.

Now Paul talks about this relationship with Christ and what it does. Verse 17 says, "This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun." Now that isn't an expectancy that is a reality.

Verse 18 says, "And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ."

Verse 22 says, "For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ." Now this was an expectancy for David but is a reality for us today.

Yes, we can have this reality of being made right with God through Christ. And that makes such a difference in our lives each and every day.

And we can pray with greater confidence and expectancy, "Listen to my voice in the morning Lord. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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